Samuel O. Bennion · 1912 April General Conference · 1912-04-07
Transcribed from the OCR of the official printed Conference Report (82nd Annual Conference), published by the Deseret News and hosted at the Internet Archive as conferencereport1912a (internal scan file conferencereport821chur). Running heads, page numbers, and line-break hyphenation removed; paragraphs reflowed.
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Heavyweight pass: verified against archive.org/details/conferencereport1912a (internal scan conferencereport821chur), leaves 98-101 (page/n98, running head 'ELDER SAMUEL O. BENNION.', OCR variants 'O.BENNION' and '0. BENNION'). Confirmed boundaries: begins immediately after Elder John F. Tolton's address and the hymn 'O Say, What Is Truth?', with '(President of Central States Mission.) I trust my brethren and sisters...'; reports on severe winter weather and Missouri/Mississippi River flood conditions, and on missionaries laboring without purse or scrip in Western Kansas; quotes D&C 84; ends '...I pray that they may be brave fearless and strong, men of wisdom and of power, that they may feel the authority of their office and calling to the glorification of the Church, and be blessed of God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Jesus. Amen.', followed by a baritone solo ('Joseph the Seer,' William H. Russell) and then Elder Frank Y. Taylor's address. This is the address originally misidentified (in this pass's own earlier notes) as a possible non-event when a stray running-head bleed for this speaker appeared mid-sentence within Elder Tolton's preceding address -- that bleed was a page-proof artifact only; Bennion's real, substantial address follows Tolton's, not embedded within it. De-hyphenated, reflowed, corrected scattered OCR errors, and removed the printed synopsis block per docs/review.md.
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